Type-writer attachment.



D. A. E. JOHNSTON.

TYPE WRITER ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED IAN-23.1913- Patented Jan. 30

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Specification of Letters yatentn Application filed January 23, 1913. Serial N 0. 243,773.

To all whom it may concern:

..)'\3 it known that 1, DAVID Ar E. (formsrois, a citizen of the United States, residing at l-ielena, in the county of Phillips and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Writer Attachments, of which the following is o I specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in typevriter attachments, and more particularly to means for storing andholding a continuous supply of paper for the new chine, so that the some will always be in condition for use by the operator, and thereby avoid the interruption commonly occusioned by the removal of a written sheet and the insertion of s new one. 7

A further object is to make a device that will be attachable to an ordinary machine, and which may be separately manufactured and kept in stock by a supply house.

in the drawings forming a part, of this specification, and in which like symbols of reference represent corresponding parts in the several views: Figure l is View of the device attached to :1 typewriter; Fig. 2 is u transverse sectional view, on the line 22, of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 a. longitudinal section of the device for storing and feeding the paper; hi". i a. View of slotted lug for attaching it to typewriter; and Fig. 5 a modification of the attaching means showing a clip to clump the frame of the type writer.

1 represents the cylinder of my attachmcnt; and 2 the shaft carrying the same, said shaft having. a groove 3 formed in the some and-angulurly inclined, so as to hold the paper when thesame is inserted in said groove and rolled in an opposite direction to the inclination of the groove upon said' shaft. The shaft is also provided with the usual handles 4: to operate the same; and disks 5 to hold the paper in proper relation thereon, the surnebeing held by means of collars 6 and screws passing through the same and against the shaft; or they may he rigidly fixed thereto, if desired.

7 are disks near the ends or the shaft 2 to hold'it in its proper relation Within the cylinder; 8 is the platen of the typewriter; and 9 the paper table towhich the device is attached.

10 represents the paper being fed from-the roll, the same passing around the platen of the typewriter and back and upward under the paper-cutter 11 on cylinder 1, when it can be severed, as desired.

12 are lugs connected to the cylinder 1 for the purpose of fastening the same to the paper table, or other part of the typewriter, by-screws l5; and 13 is o modification, shoving a. clip which may be used in lieu of lugs 12, the same being adapted to clump the deviceto the paper table of the typewriter. Of course in typewriters Where the form oi? attachment shown would not be applicable, other Well knownmechanical expedients may be employed, desired, for supporti the device on tie some.

The ope 'stion of the device will beep parent from the foregoing description'oit the same. A number of storage cylinders may he provided for a typewriter so that when one is used up another may he placed on the machine. When the device is connected to :1 machine, to the paper table or other suitable part, the paper is directed along said table under the platen of the typewriter and as said platen is operated it is ed from said roll, the reverse or winding inm'enient obtained by the operator turning handle W hen letter is fir: ished it passes under knife 11, where it can be easily severed, if desired.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Fatent, is

An attachment for typewriters, compris ing a cylinder; means depending from said cylinder and formed to engage and clamp a paper table; said cylinder having o lon gitudinal slot near its lower side through which a web of paper may pass; a shaft supported in said cylinder, said shaft having a longitudinal slot to receive and hold the end oi said web, and disks to confine the roll of paper in proper position; and a paper cutter carried by, but separated from, the upper side of the cylinder.

in testimony whereof in presence of two Witnesses.

DAVID A. E. QFQHNSTUN.

Witnesses:

CAROLYN D. Pinon, J. WM. Rnnnr.

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